Gadgetory

the verge is partnering with the inaugural panorama music festival this year in New York City and we're going to be hosting the lab an incredible interactive art space that's running all weekend long we spoke to Gabriel Palacio an artist with work featured in the space his piece is called infinite wall my name is Gabriel pleasure I'm a little light artist based in Brooklyn New York it's been it's been a very interesting path for me into art because my I start studying art and then I moved to motion motion graphics and 3d design for panorama we're building an immersive installation made out of a infinity mirrors and see-through mirrors and it's funneled interactive installation so the public comes it will be triggering ripples of light through the installation from the floor curling up one of the walls the filling is like more that you are floating in space and you're like repeated infinite times I've been doing like research and developing on this for like several months but the build four days are gonna be more or less six six weeks everything is built here motive is like later cut panels regular LEDs and extruded aluminum frame that holds the whole structure there are three Kinect sensors in the ceiling that pretty much are tracking the position of each one of the other people inside and then this is sent to like touch designer which is taking that data triggering the movies and several animations that will be mapped into the LEDs I think there is two sides of it and one is it all the back end of the installations that I'm doing it is digital but the end result it's like an analogue result which is light bouncing inside of a mirror and creating these graphics I think interaction is is key because somehow the spectator the public will immediately connect to the piece the fact that it's interactive means that it lives in this sort of fourth dimension of time it's all about how technology is tracked us from our day-to-day and our second to second and how we don't live in the present and this piece of technology what it's doing is creating ripples of light out of your position so it's like technology telling you again where you are and that you are here right now